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forbes.com - 1/2/2009
Blagojevich And The Constitution
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The Senate doesn't have to seat Burris.
Sources: Reid pressured governor on Senate replacement :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Gov. Blagojevich
suntimes.com - 1/3/2009
Sources: Reid pressured governor on Senate replacement :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Gov. Blagojevich
— suntimes.com — Reid pressured Blagojevich not to appoint Jackson Jr. to Obama's U.S. Senate seat Days before Gov. Blagojevich... was charged with trying to sell President-elect Barack Obama's U.S. Senate seat to the highest bidder, top Senate Democrat Harry Reid made ... (more) Sources: Reid pressured governor on Senate replacement  ...

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scotusblog.com - 1/1/2009
Analysis: Must Senate seat Burris?
— scotusblog.com — NOTE TO READERS: This post is another in a series exploring the meaning and scope of prior... Supreme Court rulings — here, the June 16, 1969, decision in Powell v. McCormack (395 U.S. 486). Analysis Twice in recent days, the Democrats in the ... (more) Analysis: Must Senate seat Burris?

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Former U.S. Atty: Blagojevich appointment shows he’s ‘crazy like a fox,’ playing to future black jurors.
thinkprogress.org - 12/31/2008
Former U.S. Atty: Blagojevich appointment shows he’s ‘crazy like a fox,’ playing to future black ...
— thinkprogress.org — Earlier today, Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D-IL) appointed Roland Burris, the first African-American elected to statewide office in... Illinois , to take Barack Obama’s U.S. Senate seat. Democratic leaders have indicated they are planning to block the ... (more) Former U.S. Atty: Blagojevich appointment shows he’s ...

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Instapundit:  LARRY TRIBE SAYS the Senate doesn’t have to seat Burris….

Daily Pundit:  Heavyweight Weighs In

Discriminations:  A Burris Under The Saddle...

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LARRY TRIBE SAYS the Senate doesn’t have to seat Burris….
Instapundit — LARRY TRIBE SAYS the Senate doesn’t have to seat Burris.

Heavyweight Weighs In
Daily Pundit — Blagojevich And The Constitution - Forbes.com The Senate doesn’t have to seat Burris. Says Larry Tribe. And Tribe is a bonafide Big Dog when it comes to Constitutional interpretation. It was Tribe’s recognition that the Second guaranteed an individual right that probably finally tipped the scales in that direction in the legal community as a whole.

A Burris Under The Saddle...
Discriminations — ... It’s almost as much fun watching the law professors disagree over whether the Senate has the right to refuse to seat Roland Burris (it ...

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